South Carolina Couple Charged With 4 Counts Of Murder In Connection To 2015 Homicides
The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina has made arrests in the 2015 homicides of four family members, according to reports.
Amy Vilardi and her husband, Rosmore “Ross” Vilardi, have been charged with the murders of Amy’s mother, Cathy Scott, Cathy’s husband, Michael “Mike” Scott, Mike’s mother, Barbara Scott, and Cathy’s mother, Violet Taylor.
Sheriff Chad McBride said his team arrested Amy and Ross Vilardi at their home in Columbia, South Carolina, and brought them back to Anderson County to face their murder charges.
“God bless this family. They have been through so much and they have waited so long,” McBride said.
The four were found shot to death in their home on Refuge Road in Pendleton on November 2, 2015.
Coroner Greg Shore said there was no sign of forced entry into the home or signs of a struggle and that the family was likely killed on Oct. 31, 2015.
At the time, Amy Vilardi said that she went to check on her family and found the bodies.
“When I went to knock on the back door, the door just pushed open so I walked in and it was dark and I just flipped on the light and there they were. They were just, there were there,” Amy Vilardi said in 2015.
The Vilardis lived in a separate house on the Refuge Road property.
In 2017, Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said they had identified suspects in the case, but he did not name them. He maintained that Amy and Ross Vilardi had remained persons of interest in the case.
The judge did not set bond Saturday. In the state of South Carolina, bonds on murder charges have to be set by a circuit court judge. That might not happen until the new year.
The Vilardi’s next hearing is February 20. The victims’ families asked the court for no bond. Amy Vilardi asked that she be set free to see her children.
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